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July 2026

AI and the Work of Slowing Down
Tying the lessons from Daniel Kahneman to the current moment in AI
 • Ari Franklin
AI Makes Coordination More Important, Not Less
The faster teams can generate work, the more deliberately they have to coordinate it
 • Ari Franklin
AI Agents Are Repeating the Microservices Trap
Splitting work into smaller pieces makes the system look cleaner, but the real complexity needs to be in the handoffs
 • Ari Franklin
Conviction versus Confidence
AI creates polished documents giving the appearance of conviction. But there's a difference between an idea you're confident about and a pressure tested…
 • Ari Franklin
AI makes the First Yes cheaper
AI lowers the cost of beginning things, but it does not remove the cost of owning what begins
 • Ari Franklin
The Invisible Work Under Every Cascade
AI can help teams trace the hidden assumptions beneath their goal cascades.
 • Ari Franklin

June 2026

AI Will Not Save You From Your Operating Model
AI adoption will fail when organizations try to scale it as a fixed methodology. It will work better when they spread disciplined adaptation
 • Ari Franklin
Build what you’d use, then doubt what it proves: when every itch can become software
AI makes it easier to turn every idea into software. That makes personal use a better starting point, but a weaker reason to commit.
 • Ari Franklin
The Wrong ROI Question for AI
Evaluating AI with throughput accounting vs cost accounting principles
 • Ari Franklin
The Most Truthful Roadmaps Lack Detail
A good roadmap doesn't predict the future; it communicates direction, exposes uncertainty, and helps a team learn whether its outputs are actually…
 • Ari Franklin
AI Strategy Is a Blotto Game, Not a Factory Problem
AI makes execution cheaper, but that does not make strategy easier
 • Ari Franklin
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